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Pont d'Avignon at dusk "Sur le pont d'Avignon" (pronounced [syʁ lə pɔ̃ daviɲɔ̃]) ("On the Bridge of Avignon") is a French song about a dance performed on the Pont d'Avignon (officially Pont Saint-Bénézet) that dates back to the 15th century. The dance actually took place under the bridge and not on the bridge (sous le Pont d'Avignon ...
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The 16th-century composer Pierre Certon used the melody in a mass with the title of "Sus le Pont d'Avignon". [43] The modern version of the song dates from the mid-19th century when Adolphe Adam included it in the opéra comique Le Sourd ou l'Auberge pleine which was first performed in Paris in 1853. The opera was an adaptation of the 1790 ...
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The Pont Saint-Bénézet, better known as the Pont d'Avignon and for the French song Sur le pont d'Avignon. Only four of the twenty one piers are left and the bridge ends mid-channel. On one of the piers stands the small Romanesque chapel of Saint-Bénézet. [75]
Satellite image of Toronto in 2018 The Toronto waterfront along the Scarborough Bluffs, an escarpment along Lake Ontario.. The geography of Toronto, Ontario, covers an area of 630 km 2 (240 sq mi) and is bounded by Lake Ontario to the south; Etobicoke Creek, Eglinton Avenue, and Highway 427 to the west; Steeles Avenue to the north; and the Rouge River and the Scarborough–Pickering Townline ...
Absolutely. The song predates the Revolution, but at that time, it became a grim, popular double-entendre: there was widespread slsughter of the French nobility at and around Avignon. Whether anyone was actually strung up on the bridge is unclear. Mostly, they were just hacked to death or burned in their own homes.
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